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Boomers Find Ski Slopes Are
The Next Great Place to Nest

At some of the spiffiest ski resorts in North America, conditions are just about ideal -- for today's snowballing boom in vacation-home building.

From historically underdeveloped New England to the condo-cluttered Rocky Mountains, an estimated $3 billion of new housing construction is expected to go up over the next decade. Much of this investment is coming from large corporations that in the past year or two have been acquiring resorts at a breakneck clip.